Advice for installation with pip

[miangoar]

Hi!

I used "pip install foldcomp" to install it in my system (WSL2 with conda as well as google colab). However it looks like foldcomp is not recognized because when i wrote "foldcomp" in the terminal there is no such command.

running "pip show foldcomp" shows 2 directories located at /home/my_user/anaconda3/envs/bio/lib/python3.11/site-packages:

1. foldcomp/ files:
   init.py util.py setup.py pycache
   foldcomp.cpython-311-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
   foldcomp.py (is empty)

2. foldcomp-0.0.7.dist-info/ files:
   INSTALLER LICENSE.txt METADATA RECORD REQUESTED WHEEL top_level.txt

how foldcomp must be installed ?

thanks for your attention :)

[valentynbez]

Hi @miangoar!
It is indeed not very clear, but by using pip install you're only installing a Python interface, not a command line application.
To run full foldcomp from the command line you need to download binaries or compile the soft.

Cheers!

[miangoar]

Hi @valentynbez

Thank you. I was confused and i don't want to explode my PC.
I just downloaded the pre-compiled binary and moved it to "/usr/bin/".

Before this, I noted that using the python API in a jupter notebook works well.
Anyway ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Cheers !

[milot-mirdita]

We should ship the foldcomp binary through pip as-well @khb7840

Maybe similar to this: https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/23/bundling-binary-tools-in-python-wheels